Over the past several weeks I have accumulated a half-dozen news stories about how wonderful government is for those under its thumb. Or should I say “governments” and “their thumbs.”
Over the next week or so, I want to look at the truly great (still being sarcastic, folks!) benefits we have from Excessive Government, using those stories.
Big, excessive government is bad for your health, your privacy, your pocketbook…. And the planet.
Consider Los Angeles County and the City of Carson in California.
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More government “benefits”
Another example of the benefits of government can be seen in the forests of the Western United States.
A recent article in a Los Angeles publication “City Watch” reports that burned-out forests here in the States are not re-growing themselves. Why? Manmade global warming is the cause for both the fires and forests’ failure to recover from massive fires in the last three-four decades. (And blames the “biomass industry” for contributing to the death of forests and the planet warming – and concealing the evidence.)
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